| Each chapter of this book focuses on a specific area of Windows Server 2003: Internet Information Services, security, Active Directory, and so forth. Use the Table of Contents to flip right to the section you need to learn first, or just start with Chapter 1, "Introduction to the Windows Server 2003 Family," and read the book straight through to learn all there is to know about what's new in Windows Server 2003. Throughout the book, you'll find a number of special elements designed to increase your understanding of this new product: Note These notes are designed to call your attention to information that's particularly important. We'll use these notes to highlight often-overlooked facts, interesting features, and other important information. | Caution We'll use these cautions to alert you to potentially damaging actions and to give you some advice for avoiding a potential disaster. We'll also use these cautions to highlight places where the product doesn't work quite like you think it might, so that you can avoid any unpleasant surprises that can damage your network or cause a security vulnerability. | Tip Tips will provide extra real-world information that will help you use Windows Server more effectively. These tips generally come from our experience with the product, and they're our way of passing on hard-earned lessons and saving you time. |  | These elements will refer you to additional online sidebars for background information or more in-depth coverage of basic concepts and other topics. We'll refer to the online material by an ID number, such as A010101 . Visit www.samspublishing.com and enter this book's ISBN number (no hyphens or parentheses) in the Search field; then click the book's cover image to access the book details page. Click the Web Resources link in the More Information section, and locate the article's ID number. |
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We'll use cross-references to refer you to relevant material elsewhere in this book. For example, to begin reading this book, see Chapter 1, p. 3 . We'll also use some special typefaces in this book to highlight particular pieces of information. We'll italicize new terms when we define them, so that you can more easily locate those terms later if you need to remember exactly what they mean. Whenever we tell you to type something, we'll list it in a bold, monospaced font: Type ipconfig at a command-line prompt. We'll also boldface user interface elements when we refer to them, such as asking you to select Open from the File menu, or to click the OK button on a dialog box. |
